Activities Director (Non Recreation Therapist)

San Luis Care Center•Alamosa, CO

About The Position

The Activities Director plans, organizes, develops, directs, and evaluates quality activities for patients. The role ensures that each patient’s recreational, physical, intellectual, spiritual, and social needs are met in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and Life Care standards. Activities include entertainment, exercise, relaxation, and education. The director makes rounds to check that the activities team is meeting standards and patient needs, documents patient progress and behavior, escorts patients to activities, and visits patients who are uninterested in or unable to join group activities. The position also manages the program within budget, supports patient evacuation, and works productively with an interdisciplinary team.

Requirements

Two years of experience in a social recreation program within the last five years, including one year full-time in a patient activities program in a health care setting.
Completed state-approved activity training.
Ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant.
Knowledge of practices and procedures, and laws, regulations, and guidelines governing functions in a post-acute care facility.
Ability to implement and interpret the department’s programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures.
Proficiency in competency areas including patient rights, safety, and sanitation.
Ability to maintain professional working relationships with associates, vendors, and others.
Ability to maintain confidentiality of proprietary and confidential information.
Ability to understand and follow company policies, including harassment and compliance procedures.
Adherence to Life Care’s Code of Conduct and completion of mandatory Code of Conduct and other appropriate compliance training.
Ability to concentrate and use reasoning skills and good judgment.
Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
Ability to sit, stand, bend, lift, push, pull, stoop, walk, reach, and move intermittently during working hours.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with geriatrics.
Demonstrated proficiency in arts, crafts, or music.

Responsibilities

Plan, develop, organize, implement, and evaluate quality activity programs, including entertainment, exercise, relaxation, and education.
Make daily rounds to ensure the activities team is performing to standards and patient needs are being met.
Chart patient progress and behavior appropriately and descriptively.
Escort patients to and from activities.
Make regular in-room visits to patients who are uninterested in or unable to participate in group activities.
Effectively manage and operate within budget.
Provide excellent customer service and maintain a positive attitude toward patients.
Assist in the evacuation of patients.
Maintain dependable, regular attendance.
Communicate and function productively on an interdisciplinary team.
Meet the position’s physical and communication demands, including sitting, standing, bending, lifting, pushing, pulling, stooping, walking, reaching, moving intermittently, and reading, writing, speaking, and understanding English.